M&S school trousers - how long would you expect them to last?

[AveEldon]

The metal bar and hook has broken after 3 mths wear - it is worth trying to take them back?

I bought online but customer services say I have to return them to a shop

Don't some school trousers come with a guarante they will last? Might be worth taking them back. The worst your going to get is 'there's nothing we can do'

I don't know how my mum did it but I had two school skirts for the entirety of high school. Were things indestructible in the 90s?

DSs (15) last at least a year. More likely to go on the knee or something - I've never known a fastening to go. I am assuming they are not tight on the waist?

Asda have 100day guarantee on school uniform. I'd expect m&s to have similar.

Not tight on the waist - they have those adjustable elastics at the back

My son and daughter have both worn them, they have always lasted until they have grown out of them and have never worn out though they regularly abused their trousers

I've been buying M&S trousers and shorts for school for the last 8 years. They used to be a lot better, better quality. Last couple of years poor. Ds1's have fallen apart ....(reminds myself to go onto M&S right after posting this and order some more). Reflective of the whole of M&S me thinks?

Always last a year, then he grows and we pass them on looking like new.

I would return them. Their trousers cost about 3 times the amount of supermarket ones, I'd expect better!

Never had a problem until outgrown . Can't you stitch it back on?

Mine last the year or until they outgrow them. I find even after a years wear they still look like new. I would take them back.

The hook thing is kind of riveted on so I can't repair it

If it's not repairable because of the rivet thing, I'd definitely take take it back.
I 've got 3 boys, and expect school trousers to last an academic year.

Take them back. M&S trousers get out-grown in our house not destroyed (a first for two grotty football-mad boys who are hard on all their clothes). I've never known anything from M&S kids range break or wear through.

Thanks, I will take them back.